John P. McCown

John Porter McCown (19 August 1815-22 January 1879) was a Confederate States Army Major-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
John Porter McCown was born in Sevier County, Tennessee in 1815, and he graduated from West Point in 1840. McCown served in the US Army during the Mexican-American War, being brevetted to captain after the Battle of Cerro Gordo. After the war, he served on the Rio Grande frontier and later in the Third Seminole War, the Utah War, and in Nebraska and the Dakotas. When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, he became a Confederate States Army artillery officer. On 12 October 1861, he became a Brigadier-General, and his brigade occupied Columbus, Kentucky before fighting at the Battle of Belmont. In March 1862, his army was besieged by Union general John Pope at New Madrid and Island Number Ten, and, after he was wrongly accused of drunkenness by his jealous brother, he was replaced by William W. Mackall. On 20 June 1862, he assumed overall command of the Army of the West, but he was later relegated to division command in William J. Hardee's corps. In March 1863, he was removed from command due to his rivalry with Braxton Bragg, and, after the war, he became a teacher in Knoxville and a farmer in Arkansas, where he died in 1879.